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• You get rewarded for unique knowledge, not for effort. Effort is required to create unique knowledge.

  — Naval RavikantLearning, Truth, and Wisdom

• When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

  Learning, Truth, and Wisdom

• Time is a non-renewable resource. When it is spent, it cannot be spent again. Be present to capture each moment.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Time is best measured in experiences and connections, which matter far more than things, status, or accumulation.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Time whispers, hardly noticeable, when life feels easy. Time screams jarringly loud when life is hard and its finite nature is felt.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Time heals many things, but not everything. Be sensitive to the grieving and healing of others, as there is no set time to be over something.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Embrace impermanence. Time is a thief and nothing stays the same. Enjoy each stage, season, and moment. None is less important than another.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Even the mundane moments are extraordinary blessings. Find time for gratitude daily.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Document your life more. Otherwise you will forget the details, and the details are what make it worth remembering.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Take a lot of pictures and videos, and make sure you are in them. When the time has expired, they solidify and pass down memories and stories.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• A good way to slow down time is to do difficult things. Each day becomes unique and memorable and does not blur into the next.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• The past is entirely contained in your head. It is nowhere else. The present is all that exists, and that is where you exist.

  — Naval RavikantTime, Presence, and Gratitude

• Changing your interpretation of your past is often just as good as changing your past.

  — Naval RavikantTime, Presence, and Gratitude

• A lot of our unhappiness comes from comparing things from the past to the present.

  — Naval RavikantTime, Presence, and Gratitude

• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  — Marcus AureliusTime, Presence, and Gratitude

• Always give people your full attention. It is the greatest gift you can give.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• People only remember how you made them feel. They remember meekness and charity.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• People will remember your time spent with them, your experiences with them, and your character and how you treated them.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Find time to laugh. Life is worthy of laughter in its beauty, pain, simplicity, and messiness.

  Time, Presence, and Gratitude

• Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

  — Stephen CoveyFreedom, Self-Reliance, and Independence

• A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.

  — Naval RavikantFreedom, Self-Reliance, and Independence

• In any situation you always have three choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.

  — Naval RavikantFreedom, Self-Reliance, and Independence

• Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Doctors will not make you healthy, teachers will not make you smart, mentors will not make you rich. Save yourself.

  — Naval RavikantFreedom, Self-Reliance, and Independence

• I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel.

  — Naval RavikantFreedom, Self-Reliance, and Independence

• Do not outsource your happiness or success to other people's decisions.

  — Naval RavikantFreedom, Self-Reliance, and Independence